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A Peek at America before 1950 and the Assault by the Left
American Thinker.com ^ | January 25, 2020 | Anthony J. DeBlasi

Posted on 01/25/2020 7:42:52 AM PST by Kaslin

Picture a neighborhood composed of low and middle income families, each with two parents, no homeless people, no street drugs, safe to walk the streets at night. Is this the figment of an overactive imagination? Well, it is in fact a peek at a neighborhood in New York City where the son of immigrant parents read The New York Times every morning in high school, before orchestra rehearsal. Me. The principal, strongly authoritarian and well loved, opened a weekly assembly of highly diverse youngsters by reading a psalm from the Bible. Tough-as-nails, yet tenderhearted teachers passed on a tradition of excellence in thought, expression, and civility while preparing us for a wide range of careers in a free and independent America.

This typical school of 1940s New York City had higher standards and grade profile than any counterpart today and operated on a budget far smaller in equivalent dollars than any current public school budget. In these “backward” times, the schools were free of substance abuse problems, sexual promiscuity, and identity problems. There was an abiding respect for the authority of teachers and parents and for the dignity of every person regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity. There were clubs in my school for religion, for foreign languages (including Latin). A Reporters’ Club recorded significant events for the school paper. There were toy drives for a local hospital . . . The list of extracurricular engagements was long.

I think it’s revealing that dictionaries in these “retrograde” times did not prefix definitions of words referring to high moral standards, such as virtue, with the phrase “regarded as.” It did not have to be stated that opinion or “point of view” is not a valid basis for morality.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 1940s; demonrats
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To: Kaslin

STOP.ALL.IMMIGRATION.INDEFINITELY.NOW!


21 posted on 01/25/2020 8:18:41 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kaslin

My kids were looking at middle and high-school photos of their grandfather. He, and all his friends were wearing a coat and tie. They asked him: “why were you all dressed-up?”

He told them how a coat and tie were a daily requirement at his public school. If you didn’t have one, the principal and teachers (who greeted all students at the door) sent you home. Nobody complained though. All the parents agreed with the school. It was not a wealthy area either. It was the Depression, and It was a blue-collar neighborhood, very much “working class.”

He explained how there were no drugs, no sex or relationships, no drama, no gangs, no fights, no bullying.

My kids said: “I think we would have liked your school”


22 posted on 01/25/2020 8:19:08 AM PST by PGR88
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To: wardaddy

Affirmative Action was a serious “nail in the coffin”. When you have conceded the government can harm one citizen to the benefit of another it’s all a con game afterwards.


23 posted on 01/25/2020 8:28:18 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: PGR88

And I bet they were taught manners besides all the other stuff that Teachers don’t teach any more


24 posted on 01/25/2020 8:29:02 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Cloverfarm

“He said the church lost a great blessing by giving up ministry to the poor and letting the government take it over.“

Yes, truly.

Combine that with the progressives’/leftists’ infestation of education, unions, Hollywood, TV, D’rat party, much of gov and our MSM.

Then, add in the deep desire for peace and normal life after the terrible WWII — a job & home & family & car, TV sports & TV dinners & beers, toys & recreation...easy, comfy living.

We got soft, didn’t worry about ‘those hippies’ or college protests, didn’t fret much about the pill or no-fault divorce or pot or ‘God is dead’.


25 posted on 01/25/2020 8:29:31 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: LouAvul

“It was highjacked by whores, fags, addicts and atheists. And the tip of the spear was hollyweird. That was our big mistake, viz. allowing our morals, values and ethics to be shaped by a bunch of demented perverts.”

Exactly right and this process was kicked into high gear when Obama was president.


26 posted on 01/25/2020 8:46:10 AM PST by tuffydoodle (God's character and moral nature are absolute, eternal, and unchanging.)
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To: certrtwngnut

Spoiling their children in an attempt to give them everything they were denied like Mercedes Benz cars and 7 bedroom 5000 sf homes. Kids from the 80’s, 90’s and beyond were never told “no”. Nor were they taught economics or history.


27 posted on 01/25/2020 8:51:23 AM PST by albie
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To: boxlunch

“Pleasantville”.


28 posted on 01/25/2020 8:53:37 AM PST by pabianice
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To: pabianice

I would head there right now if I could!!!!!!!!!


29 posted on 01/25/2020 8:54:36 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
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To: certrtwngnut
I am vilified for saying this but I think the “Greatest Generation” which lived through the great depression and WW11 are mainly at fault for the problems we face today.

Actually, that's a pretty common opinion o FR.

30 posted on 01/25/2020 8:56:27 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: Kaslin

IMHO the 19th amendment was the turning point ... emotional creatures given the power to vote on how to run the show ...


31 posted on 01/25/2020 9:15:21 AM PST by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: boxlunch

I’ve often told my children that they have no idea what it was to live free.


32 posted on 01/25/2020 9:17:23 AM PST by keats5
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To: certrtwngnut
the “Greatest Generation” which lived through the great depression and WW11 are mainly at fault for the problems we face today.

You are correct. They elected Roosevelt.

33 posted on 01/25/2020 9:30:05 AM PST by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: Kaslin

Men were men, women were women and even children could explain that to their parents.


34 posted on 01/25/2020 9:35:38 AM PST by clearcarbon
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To: Sans-Culotte

The “greatest generation” carried the seeds of what came later. The 1960’s “cultural revolution” didn’t come out of nowhere. Diana West talks about it in her book “American Betrayal.” Some of her claims are arguable or perhaps overstated, but I think she is on to something.


35 posted on 01/25/2020 9:39:05 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Kaslin

Schools were free of substance abuse problems, sexual promiscuity, and identity problems.

Liberals destroy list the no rules game is their life until it kills them.


36 posted on 01/25/2020 9:39:33 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Kaslin

Before 1950-all true but the heavy left assault on the American educational system was well underway since the early 1900s - John Dewey, consolidated school districts, passive PTAs, school boards packed with lefties, gradual elimination of religion, etc., etc.


37 posted on 01/25/2020 9:47:04 AM PST by Bedford Forrest (Roger, Contact, Judy, Out. Fox One. Splash one.)
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To: tuffydoodle
"........this process was kicked into high gear when Obama was president.."

Also exactly right. Satan used America's fools to vote for that boob simply because he was black. America's fools were more interested in parading their virtue and tolerance than paying attention to O'bummer's politics, religion, (lack of) work ethic and personal habits.

38 posted on 01/25/2020 9:52:45 AM PST by LouAvul
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To: Kaslin

I don’t recall if the adults in my youth were looking back on the 1920’s the way folk around her pine for the 1950’s.

Looking back can be fun, but it can make you depressed.


39 posted on 01/25/2020 9:56:28 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: boxlunch

Ditto!


40 posted on 01/25/2020 10:08:23 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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